Torrance, Cibola counties await no-bid ICE details to keep detention facilities open | Santa Fe New Mexican, April 2026

Cibola County Commission votes to exit ICE immigrant detention contract | Source NM, March 2026

He almost signed his own deportation. A habeas petition in a New Mexico federal court saved him. | New Mexico In Depth, January 2026

Report Exposes Fatal Failures Inside Local Correctional Center | Cibola Citizen, August 2025

‘Devastating’: troubled federal correctional center failed to prevent death of man in medical crisis | The Guardian, August 2025

‘A death sentence’: a young mother grappling with addiction dies in a drug-plagued US prison | The Guardian, August 2025

FBI investigates drug-trafficking ‘epidemic’ in prison also housing Ice detainees: ‘A lot of corruption’ | The Guardian, August 2025

By the #s: Two NM jails house record number of ICE detainees | Source NM, July 2025

Immigrants forced to sleep on floors at overwhelmed ICE detention centers | Washington Post, April 2025

Bill would bar New Mexico counties from entering agreements with immigrant detention centers | Santa Fe New Mexican, February 2025

The Billion-Dollar Private Prison Companies Capitalizing On Trump’s Immigration Crackdown | Forbes, January 2025

Complaint Alleges Staff At Center Holding Asylum Seekers in New Mexico Deal Drugs at The Facility | The Latin Times, December 2024

New Mexico Correctional Center accused of medical neglect | KOAT 7, December 2024

Immigrant rights group demands inquiry of medical neglect claims at New Mexico facility | Santa Fe New Mexican, December 2024

Feds crack down on private New Mexico prison ‘awash’ in drugs | Albuquerque Journal, November 2024

ICE Already Receiving Proposals To Expand Detention Capabilities in Six States | The Latin Times, July 2024

Colorado College researchers document abuses at NM immigration detention centers | Source NM, March 2024

Inmate found dead at Cibola County Correctional Center  | KOAT, March 2024

Discrimination against asylum seeker with disability in NM leads to national policy change | Source NM, June 2023

Migrants held at Cibola County Correctional Center protest inhumane conditions | KOB, Dec 2022

Migrants held at Cibola County Correctional Center announce hunger strike | NM Political Report, Nov 2022

Hunger strikers at New Mexico ICE facilities protest inhumane conditions | Prism, Nov 2022

Complaint says Cibola detention and ICE neglected an asylum-seeker, leaving him injured by shackles | Source NM, Aug 2022

Private Prison Operator CoreCivic Is Accused of Ignoring a Covid-19 Outbreak, Putting Inmates and the Community at Risk  | NM Political Report, Sept 2020 

Lawmakers Want Answers from ICE, Contractor Regarding Covid-19 Outbreak at NM Jail | BorderReport, Aug 2020

A Secret Memo Revealed How A Transgender Immigrant Bleeding From Her Rectum Waited 13 Days For Care While Jailed By ICE | BuzzFeed News, March 2020 

Dozens of transgender detainees transferred from criticized New Mexico ICE facility | USA Today, Jan 2020

Ice Detention Center May Have Allowed Video to Be Deleted After Detainee’s Death, Lawyers Say | Washington Post, Oct 2019

ICE Deleted Surveillance Video Of A Transgender Asylum-Seeker Who Died In Its Custody | BuzzFeed News, Oct 2019

Cibola County Correctional Center — a Fourth of July Visit | Santa Fe New Mexican, July 2019

Granted Asylum But Still Confined in a Detention Center | AZPM, Jan 2019 

Attorney: $5M Settlement Reached in New Mexico Jail Death | US News & World Report, Jan 2019

Independent Autopsy of Transgender Asylum Seeker Who Died in ICE Custody Shows Signs of Abuse | The New York Times, Dec 2018

Trans Woman Was Beaten in ICE Custody Before Death, Autopsy Finds | Nov 2018

Private Prison Companies Served with Lawsuits over Using Detainee Labor | The Guardian, Nov 2018

New Mexico Trying to Recover $3.6m from Private Prison Company | Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug 2018 

ICE’s Rejection of Its Own Rules Is Placing LGBT Immigrants at Severe Risk of Sexual Abuse | Center for American Progress, May 2018 

ICE Detainee from Honduras Dies in Albuquerque Hospital | Albuquerque Journal, May 2018

Cibola County Facing Prospect of Bankruptcy | AP NEWS, Jan 2018 

A Black Hole of Due Process’ in New Mexico | New Mexico In Depth | New Mexico In Depth, Dec 2017 

Inside a Private Prison’s $150M Deal to Detain Immigrants in New Mexico | New Mexico In Depth, Oct 2017 

Inside a Private Prison’s $150M Deal to Detain Immigrants in New Mexico | Reveal, Oct 2017 

Man’s Death Hints at Wretched Medical Care in Private Immigration Prisons | The Guardian, Nov 2016 

ICE Plans to Reopen the Very Same Private Prison the Feds Just Closed | The Nation, Oct 2016 

Private Prisons Can’t Ignore Public Access Laws | The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Fall 2001

Bailing Out Private Jails | The American Prospect, Dec 2001

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